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I'm glad you posted the link, I saw this the other day and was further saddened for the fate of our society. I don't owe her reparations....... The only thing I owe her is a swift kick in her plastic, pretentious ass.

She is the result of a coddled, drive by, disposable and entitled generation. Idiocracy has arrived......and it raps.

The horrors of the transatlantic slave trade have been extensively documented in print and eloquently portrayed on film and television. But chattel slavery was a well-established African as well as European institution, and its victims were not exclusively people of color. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, the Barbary states of North Africa used Islamic pirates, or corsairs, to conduct slave raids, which fed the flourishing slave markets of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. Many of the enslaved were white Europeans or North Americans captured at sea. Among them was Thomas Pellow, an 11-year-old English child who was seized in 1716 and served for 23 years as a personal servant to Sultan Moulay Ismail of Morocco. Milton relates Pellow's compelling story as a triumph of wile, pluck, and endurance; but this is also a tale of great brutality and suffering, as Milton eloquently shows that all of the indignities one associates with European and American slavery were visited upon those held in North Africa.

It was announced that the Obama administration would fully consider abandoning Israel in international bodies like the United Nations. According to reports, President Obama finally called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to congratulate him – but the “congratulations” was actually a lecture directed at forcing Netanyahu to surrender to the terrorist Palestinian regime.There was never any doubt that Obama doesn't like Bibbi...............and will try to make him pay for his speaking at the Congress................

There is little doubt that the Dems here tried to change the election in Israel and failed...........so now they will try to make Bibbi pay,

Nemesis ... was the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris (arrogance before the gods). Another name was Adrasteia, meaning "the inescapable." The Greeks personified vengeful fate as a remorseless goddess: the goddess of revenge.

The name Nemesis is related to the Greek word νέμειν némein, meaning "to give what is due" - WIKI

Good stuff! But we must always remember that it is no for us to wreak VENGEANCE. That is the job of whatever concept of God you are able to accept. And woe betide anyone who cannot conceive of a power or governing intelligence greater than his tiny little self.

Grim news gets more grim each week. Just when one thinks it can't possibly get worse it does. Even the bright spot of Hillary and her little server problem only tells us they may have someone even worse in the wings.

The Progressive Theory of Economic General Relativity:Much like Einstein's thought experiment of riding a beam of light that gave rise to the Theory of General Relativity. Let's take a ride on economic theory of Progressives and see where we arrive.

As we transition more and more toward Progressivism we notice a few things:

overall poverty increases wealth becomes more concentrated at the top government regulation increases more people depend on government even for the basics of life

At the event horizon of a full Progressive economy we notice:

poverty and destitution are the norm wealth is now concentrated in the political ruling class who have amassed the entire wealth of the nation for themselves all activity is regulated all people depend on government for their daily bread

We've seen this experiments repeated countless times, with the exact same result every time: Stalin's USSR, Mao's China, FDR's Great Depression, East Germany, Camden, Newark and Detroit. The scale of the economy is unimportant, all Progressive economies lead to total ruin.

You know I'd be glad to divest myself of a considerable portion of my small fortune, if I could be absolutely certain that these filthy degenerate bloodsucking MORONS were forever REMOVED from MY sight and from the any audible or visible presence in OUR country as a result of MY sacrifice.

Stinkin' Lincoln had only ONE really good idea, and that was to TRANSPORT THEM ALL to LIBERIA.

* Hiroshima has returned to what it was economically vibrant before the fall of the atomic bomb.

* Japan prevents the use of mobile phones in trains, restaurants and indoors.

* For first to sixth primary year Japanese students must learn ethics in dealing with people.

* Even though one of the richest people in the world, the Japanese, do not have servants. The parents are responsible for the house and children.

* There is no examination from the first to the third primary level because the goal of education is to instill concepts and character building.

* If you go to a buffet restaurant in Japan you will notice people only eat as much as they need without any waste because food must not be wasted.

* The rate of delayed trains in Japan is about 7 seconds per year!! The Japanese appreciate the value of time and are very punctual to minutes and seconds.

* Children in schools brush their teeth after a meal at school, teaching them to maintain their health from an early age.

* Japanese students take half an hour to finish their meals to ensure proper digestion because these students are the future of Japan.

The Japanese focus on maintaining their culture. Therefore,

* No political leader or a prime minister from an Islamic nation has visited Japan not the Ayatollah of Iran, the King of Saudi Arabia or even a Saudi Prince!

* Japan is a country keeping Islam at bay by putting strict restrictions on Islam and ALL Muslims.

1) Japan is the only nation that does not give citizenship to Muslims. 2) In Japan permanent residency is not given to Muslims. 3) There is a strong ban on the propagation of Islam in Japan 4) In the University of Japan, Arabic or any Islamic language is not taught. 5) One cannot import a 'Koran' published in the Arabic language. 6) According to data published by the Japanese government, it has given temporary residency to only 2 lakhs, Muslims, who must follow the Japanese Law of the Land. These Muslims should speak Japanese and carry their religious rituals in their homes. 7) Japan is the only country in the world that has a negligible number of embassies in Islamic countries. 8) Muslims residing in Japan are the employees of foreign companies. 9) Even today, visas are not granted to Muslim doctors, engineers or managers sent by foreign companies. 10) In the majority of companies it is stated in their regulations that no Muslims should apply for a job. 11) The Japanese government is of the opinion that Muslims are fundamentalist, and even in the era of globalization they are not willing to change their Muslim laws. 12) Muslims cannot even rent a house in Japan. 13) If anyone comes to know that his neighbor is a Muslim then the whole neighborhood stays alert. 14) ?.....slamic cell or Arabic 'Madrasa' in Japan . 15) There is no Sharia law in Japan . 16) If a Japanese woman marries a Muslim, she is considered an outcast forever. 17) According to Mr. Kumiko Yagi, Professor of Arab/Islamic Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, " There is a mind frame in Japan that Islam is a very narrow minded religion and one should stay away from it."

The Japanese might have lost the war, but they are in charge of their own country.

There are no bombs going off in crowded business centers, "Honor Killings", nor killing of innocent children or anyone else.

Your numbered talking points on Islam in japan are both wrong and easily confirmed as such. There is however, this same viral meme [internet chain letter] posted to several blogs, verbatim...and all without a shred of substantiation.

It's sad that you would allow your visceral hatred of Islam to devalue your intellectual currency.

It is said that: "students are the future of Japan". I wonder if their "students" face the mountain of debt and unfunded liabilities that our "students" (our future) will or the negative consequences of a sub-standard public education in a burgeoning world economy that our "students" (our future) will? Yes, the Japanese have Hiroshima, we have Detroit!

Japan IS in truth a RACIST NATION. So, really, is ISRAEL -- despite their frequent protestations to the contrary. What else could Israel be since her leaders and most of her people refer to their country as The JEWISH State?

That's all right with me, but it's time we stopped pussy-footing around in fear of being called a "racist," a "bigot," or an "anti-Semite" and started calling a spade a spade

Even England in her heyday never referred to herself as The ANGLICAN-PROTESTANT STATE.

That aside, whether strictly true or not, everything listed in the email I shared above is a DARNED GOOD IDEA. It is ain't true, by Crikey it OUGHT to be!

This was declared an OPEN THREAD, Bub. So quit your pretentious, self-righteous hyper-ventilating, get down off your high horse, and start talking like a fellow human being instead of an obnoxious, supercilious blowhard burdened with an immense superiority complex.

In future, please don't address me. I have no desire to tangle with people of your type. I do not like those who sit haughtily in judgment as though they were Chosen by God to correct every perceived flaw in sight. Your arrogance, sir, is exceeded only by your insolence.

The PROPER way to make such an observation would have been to ask politely in a neutral tone, "Are you aware that the information you have shared about Japan is an email chain letter that has been shown to contain many inaccuracies?" and then proceeded to explain precisely what some of them might be.

In short I suggest you might benefit immensely from taking a good, old-fashioned Dale Carnegie course in "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

I'll address you as I like. Tough for you. You're a pretentious, perfidious blowhard who willfully proffered an internet meme devoid of anything but lies. Rational human beings don't traffic in appeals to emotion.

Od course I can....where, oh where to begin....since we can't prove what doesn't exist, let's start with # 4 - "In the University of Japan, Arabic or any Islamic language is not taught."

Of course, since there is no 'University of Japan', let's presume that the bullshit meme might mean the University of Tokyo.

Classical and Mediterranean Languages

The Department of Classical and Mediterranean Languages is an intimate department consisting of two expert members of staff: Kenji Tsutsui (specialist in Classical and Biblical Studies), responsible for beginner and intermediate Greek and Latin, and Hideaki Sugita (specialist in Comparative Literature and Culture), responsible for beginner and intermediate Arabic.http://www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng_site/info/academics/zenki/bukai/foreign-languages/

Let's hit #7 while we're at it - "Japan is the only country in the world that has a negligible number of embassies in Islamic countries."

Hmmmm....seems that Japan has embassies in every majority Islamic nation that we do.

http://www.embjapan.org/embassies-middle-east/

Shall we ask FT to source some of the rest of the tripe, or might he be too busy regurgitating his invented acronyms or advocating for ethnic cleansing, then responding to himself via invented usernames?

While we're having fun....let's share a site that I won't pretend to prove the fidelity of, regarding bullshit meme point #17: "According to Mr. Kumiko Yagi........"

About the chain email concerning Islam in JapanMy name is mentioned in the email and I am quoted as saying that there is a mind frame in Japan that Islam is a very narrow minded religion and one should stay away from it. It is taken out of context. What I said about Islam in Japan is on the website below.

Just six asylum seekers were granted refugee status by the government last year, the lowest number in 15 years, the Justice Ministry said Thursday, as experts and refugee supporters expressed outrage over what they say is yet another testament to Japan’s insularity.

Out of the six, three were turned down in the initial interview process and had to re-apply. By nationality, three of the six were identified as coming from Myanmar.

Immigration authorities dealt with 3,777 cases in 2013, including re-applications. The refugee recognition rate stood at a meager 0.16 percent. This compares with the 0.6 percent in 2012.

Meanwhile, the number of asylum seekers shot to a record 3,260, the most since 1982, when the current refugee system was established. By nationality, Turks were the most common at 658, followed by Nepalese at 544 and Myanmarese at 380. Out of the total, 2,404 applied for refugee status as legitimate visa holders.

I don't like you either, CI. Never did. Never will. I explained why more than adequately above.

"I do not like those who sit haughtily in judgment as though they were Chosen by God to correct every perceived flaw in sight. Your arrogance, sir, is exceeded only by your insolence."

Why don't we just call it a Personality Conflict, leave it at that, and move on? AOW is a good friend, and I don't want to trouble her with a prolonged exchange of insults and unpleasantries.

You are right about giving way to emotion. It was foolish of me to take notice of your rebarbative personality and even more foolish for me to have complained about it, and stooped to responding to you kind.

Please accept my apologies.

If you feel you have some sort of mandate -- or duty -- to CENSURE and CORRECT those you don't like personally, or those with whom you disagree, who am I to attempt to deny your right to be as bilious, contemptuous and unforgiving as your nature impels?

Theorists - There's no "technically" about it. The "gist" of the meme is bullshit. It's the same tactic Liberals use. Anyone caught doing the same, and calling themselves Conservative, should hang their head in shame.

No, its the difference between the letter of a law and the Superego intention behind it. The letter of the law means nothing without the "latter". Just ask President Obozo. Just ask the blacks who marched from Selma. Technically, all the blacks in the South could vote. Technically.

Now you're just not making sense, and attempting to deflect. You're better than that. The letter of the law is clear, and ego has nothing to do with the internet meme. There is no "technically" about lying. Deflecting is something that liberals do, when called out for their perfidy.

If you were to ask me, the existence of a single Arabic language scholar in the "Classics" department of a major University hardly qualifies as a will/desire to engage in reading or give credence to the teachings of Islam.

But, to paraphrase you, that wasn't the talking point. And have you surveyed all of the universities in Japan, before making that assertion? Did you then correlate that with other universities in industrialized nations to draw your inference? If not, then why did you bother making the point, when it wasn't the assertion?

Theoretically, Japan is open to political refuges. That's their "de jure" position. The de facto position is that only six people "qualified" for refugee status in 2006. And therein lies the difference between having laws permitting refugee immigration, and having the "will" to accept them.

I appreciate your insight into Japanese culture, so surely you as well would take umbrage at a willful mischaracterization - in this case - specifically regarding Muslims, merely to advance a personal agenda against Muslims?

Polemics are part of politics, CI. Even lawyers argue their client's cases from a biased/partisan perspective. This is a "given" in our system of jurisprudence. The point is, to attack the inaccuracies and expose ALL the facts. And you do that, by arguing specifics. It's how the true state of affairs comes to light.

And I'm not an advocate for allowing large numbers of Moslems into our country. But those who do qualify to come here, should be accepted as full and equal citizens. In other words, I believe that without narrow gates, assimilation becomes nearly impossible.

I would agree they are appealing ideas, Frank, but, apparently, most of them did not originate with the Japanese as stated. I have to admit it's always tempting to endorse "messages" that resonate well with one's personal convictions.

I still think "the list" is well worth discussing on the merits of WHAT it SAYS as opposed to WHO said it, but that concept seems to offend those who, I believe, are always looking for "good reasons" to BE "offended," because their true passion is to SCOLD and UPBRAID at every available opportunity while PRETENDING to champion Honesty, Integrity and Authenticity.

Doubt me? Just look around you. We see abundant examples of exactly that every single day.

"One would think that our military would understand that we are at war and take certain precautions."

But sadly, many of them, or their spouses don't. I participated in an exercise not long ago, where we scraped social media information on active duty service members [usually their spouses] and correlated what we got with name-relation sources [internet "look up" services], and were able to compile the home addresses, children's schools and likely off duty venues. No 'hacking' needed.

If I were Da'ish, I wouldn't necessarily reveal that I was able to scrape personnel locations from social media...I would state that it was my black hat 'hackers'.

We are in the age of absurdity. Dadaism infected society and induced cultural insanity in the 20th century, and it has spawned full-blown Blablaism, just as Religious-cloaked Baroque led to the sometimes-naughty and libertine Rococo.

Anybody can write a book, be an 'expert,' say anything, look 'smart' while criticizing wisdom of the ages, badmouth everything western civilization was founded up, and millions of media-drunk dullards will cheer them on.

I know this sounds snooty, and perhaps hypocritical coming from a libertarian, but I don't want to shut us the purveyors of filth, stupidity and cultural degradation.

I just wish people would exercise their mental faculties and natural powers of judgment.

First neither of us has any concept of what the other considers "leftwing".It would take calm discussion and some trust for that to happen. Very unlikely.

2. The whole "leftwing" media ias a meme that has been served to the right despite it's having no concrete meaning.Just a talking point which you have swallowed whole in absolute confirmation of my point.

No, it's not incorrect.And yes, most people can define leftwing. Nobody's 'swallowed' anything but you if you don't think the culture has faltered terribly due to leftwing permissiveness, political correctness and immorality (Oh, I remember....'define immorality'.WOW.

AOW, and I think that it's the news channels that have propagated this, too, don't you think? ESPECIALLY FOX because they actually DO have two sides on the subjects and it ends up a screaming match with both sides talking over the other...There IS rarely any civility.

It'd be better to have shows that have some lengthy coverage of a subject.... not just "now we have a commercial, so by by!" to the really important discussion. We're being trained to think in time periods only long enough to last between TV ads...........I'd love a half hour, or even hour-long and daily show covering one subject at a time, in depth.THEN people would have to PROVE their statements....nowhere to hide behind time constraints.

Every time I've tried to discuss this at the blog and included FOX in the negatives column, the leftwingers have jumped in and demolished the conversation with anti-FOX BS...it's sad because while FOX really IS the only one which continuously has both sides, their format is not conducive to any really in depth discussion. No channels have this but PBS and they're mostly leftwingers with no worry about commercials... I had to laugh at Charlie Rose the night of the Israeli elections...apparently Charlie wasn't any too pleased so he had on only leftwing Bibi-haters from here and ISrael..so in earnest, so sad, so full of rubbish-filled 'facts'....it was almost bizarre.

A millionaire complaining about reparations? If you don't like this country, then don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you. Your reparations will be paid to you at whatever country you decide to 'grace'... don't hold your breath.

A new CNN/ORC poll finds most Americans say they would like a [2016] candidate who's a seasoned political leader, someone with an executive background, and someone who's willing to change Barack Obama's policies....

Because of people I've known that have lived there for years and know the language well. Because of apartment rentals that say "no foreigners", because of third and fourth generation Koreans, born in Japan, yet refused citizenship or required to even change their name to a Japanese name before they can become Japanese citizens. Because of the Japanese treatment of aboriginal peoples in Japan and Okinawa

I'll bet you didn't even know there were aboriginal peoples in Japan or Okinawa. The Japanese race (and the Japanese people very much consider themselves a race) were originally from Korea (such has been determined by anthropologists and geneticists) but the Japanese people very much reject this.

Don't get me wrong, I very much admire the Japanese. I find their attitude more insular and chauvinistic than racist. Their advancement in the face of many obsticals is truly amazing.

I don't know all that much about Japan. The Asians with whom I have the most contact are South Koreans and Christian Chinese. I have friends in both groups, and these friends immigrated to America at least a decade ago.

I've never really understood all the enmity between the Koreans and the Japanese. Once, I asked a Korean, "Are you Japanese?"

The response: "Do I look like a dirty Japanese to you? The Japanese look like monkeys. I DO NOT!"

If you'd like to read a novel and truly understand the horrors of N Korea, I think you'd be stunned and fascinated by The Orphan Master's Son....MY GOSH....apparently totally realistic and horrifying. I got to understand N Korea that way .... as well as I got to really understand the Muslim in America through SEEKING ALLAH FINDING JESUS.stunning stuff...I promise :-)

The Rapper who hates the country that made her rich is another example of a SELF HATER who directs their own self loathing outwards rather than deal with their own failings and faults. Scratch most liberals and you'll find the same disease just under the veneer.

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